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08-16-2016, 07:25 PM
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani Taliban breakaway faction that claimed responsibility for the attach on Quetta’s hospital last week said on Tuesday it had ** links with Daesh, whose leadership also said it was behind the attack.
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, which briefly declared allegiance to Daesh in 2014, said in an audio statement that its fight was solely against the Pakistani state and that linking it to trans-national militant networks was wrong.
"We want to make it clear that our movement has ** connection to Daesh or al Qaeda," the group's leader, Omar Khalid Khorasani said.
"Those in Daesh or al Qaeda or any other mujahideen movement are our Muslim brothers. But we do **t have any organisational link with any of them. With Daesh and al Qaeda we have never had an organisational link before, and even today we have ** organisational link with them," Khorasani said.
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar claimed responsibility within hours for the suicide bomb in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed more than 70 people, most of them lawyers, on Aug. 8. Later, Islamic State, based in Iraq and Syria, also claimed responsibility.
That heightened fears that IS had gained a firmer foothold in Pakistan, a country of 190 million people where a myriad of local militant outfits exist with the means of launching major attacks.
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, behind a ****** of bombings including in a public park in Lahore in March, has never specifically disavowed Islamic State before. Khorasani made ** mention of the Quetta bombing in the audio message released on Tuesday.
The group, designated a "global terrorist" group by the United States earlier this month, emerged in 2014 after Khorasani, the Pakistani Taliban commander in the Mohmand tribal area, broke off to form his own organisation.
In the statement, Khorasani said his group had ** intention of fighting to install Islamic law beyond Pakistan. He also said that there were ** Islamic State fighters present in the areas where his fighters were operating, largely along the lawless border with Afghanistan in Pakistani tribal areas.
Daesh has been trying to expand its presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan as its territory shrinks in Syria and Iraq but faces competition from local militants.
Security officials and analysts say that Islamic State remains - for **w - more of a "brand name" in South Asia than a cohesive militant force in much of the region.
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Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, which briefly declared allegiance to Daesh in 2014, said in an audio statement that its fight was solely against the Pakistani state and that linking it to trans-national militant networks was wrong.
"We want to make it clear that our movement has ** connection to Daesh or al Qaeda," the group's leader, Omar Khalid Khorasani said.
"Those in Daesh or al Qaeda or any other mujahideen movement are our Muslim brothers. But we do **t have any organisational link with any of them. With Daesh and al Qaeda we have never had an organisational link before, and even today we have ** organisational link with them," Khorasani said.
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar claimed responsibility within hours for the suicide bomb in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed more than 70 people, most of them lawyers, on Aug. 8. Later, Islamic State, based in Iraq and Syria, also claimed responsibility.
That heightened fears that IS had gained a firmer foothold in Pakistan, a country of 190 million people where a myriad of local militant outfits exist with the means of launching major attacks.
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, behind a ****** of bombings including in a public park in Lahore in March, has never specifically disavowed Islamic State before. Khorasani made ** mention of the Quetta bombing in the audio message released on Tuesday.
The group, designated a "global terrorist" group by the United States earlier this month, emerged in 2014 after Khorasani, the Pakistani Taliban commander in the Mohmand tribal area, broke off to form his own organisation.
In the statement, Khorasani said his group had ** intention of fighting to install Islamic law beyond Pakistan. He also said that there were ** Islamic State fighters present in the areas where his fighters were operating, largely along the lawless border with Afghanistan in Pakistani tribal areas.
Daesh has been trying to expand its presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan as its territory shrinks in Syria and Iraq but faces competition from local militants.
Security officials and analysts say that Islamic State remains - for **w - more of a "brand name" in South Asia than a cohesive militant force in much of the region.
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